On a recent Sunday morning at Grace Church in Ridgewood, the service closely resembled how the congregation worshiped before the pandemic. Senior pastor Aaron Syvertsen preached a sermon, as usual.

For the first time in more than 2½ years, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans is letting clergy offer communion wine as the blood of Christ. The church halted the practice at the beginning ...

Some area Catholic churches have temporarily shelved their Holy Communion wine cups to help keep seasonal viruses at bay. Citing an “increase of various illnesses in our community,” priests of the ...

The Roman Catholic bishop of Baton Rouge has asked pastors to make communion wine available to parishioners again, beginning on the first weekend of Advent, but churches have permission to proceed at ...

Churches within the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh now are permitted to make their own call when it comes to offering sacramental wine at Holy Communion. Bishop David Zubik announced June 24 the ...

In the United States, the Chicago-based business Blessed Communion, which makes pre-filled disposable communion cups, has seen a deluge of orders ahead of Easter Sunday. The cups are sealed with grape ...

One year ago, with the world rapidly changing around me, I stepped away from active ministry with a new calling. I dedicated one year to visiting churches, going to denominations and faiths that I ...

A warning from a Long Island, N.Y., church that Christmas Day worshipers may have been exposed to hepatitis A has renewed concerns about catching disease by drinking wine from a Communion chalice.

The two elements of the Eucharist are bread and wine—simple gifts laden with enormous symbolic significance reaching right back to the roots, not only of Israel’s revelation, but to our own most ...

For Catholics like me, living with celiac disease means not being able to consume wheat, oats, rye or barley, which contain gluten. The consequences of this autoimmune disease are vividly exemplified ...